We kill Stella (film)

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Movie
Original title We're killing Stella
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 99 minutes
Age rating JMK 12
Rod
Director Julian Roman Pölsler
script Julian Roman Pölsler
production Dieter Pochlatko ,
Jakob Pochlatko ,
Julian Roman Pölsler
camera Walter Kindler ,
JRP Artman
cut Bettina Mazakarini
occupation

We kill Stella is an Austrian fiction film from 2017 by Julian Roman Pölsler based on the novel of the same name by Marlen Haushofer (1958). After Die Wand (2012), this is Pölsler's second film adaptation of a Haushofer novel. Martina Gedeck can be seen again in one of the leading roles. The premiere took place on September 26, 2017 at the Leipzig Film Art Fair . The film was released in cinemas in Austria on September 29, 2017. The film opened in Germany on January 18, 2018.

action

The main character Anna writes down her story in which she tells about nineteen-year-old Stella. Stella spends some time studying with Anna and her family in the big city. Anna's husband Richard is a successful and handsome lawyer, he starts an affair with Stella. His wife observes the affair with a cool look, the broken middle-class family idyll must be maintained by all means. Richard therefore drops Stella. After Stella is forced to have an abortion , she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a truck. By writing the story, Anna tries to process her complicity in this tragedy.

production

The shooting took place from May 30th to October 14th, 2016, the shooting was in Vienna , Lower Austria , Upper Austria and Styria , one of the locations was Gosau . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the states of Lower Austria and Upper Austria as well as Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by Epo-Film and co-produced by the Austrian Juwel Film . Walter Fiklocki was responsible for the sound, Ingrid Leibezeder for the costume design, Enid Löser for the production design and Monika Puymann for the make-up.

In some scenes, reference is made to “The Wall”. In an interview, Pölsler stated that he saw the film as a prequel to Die Wand because Haushofer wrote the novel We kill Stella (1958) before Die Wand (1963). He also plans to film the Haushofer novel Die Mansarde (1969). All three works are written in the first person and are about a woman who wants to write something of her soul. Pölsler tried to work the same way in the style of both films, so Gosau, the dog and Ulrike Beimpold also appear again. For financial reasons, he started with Die Wand because, in his opinion, the other two parts would not have been funded.

reception

In the daily Die Presse, Norbert Mayer described the film as Pölsler's second successful attempt at a work by Haushofer. “The scenes in which you can hear the place setting voice while she is standing silently at the window or recording memories of Stella on her tablet are full of intensity. [...] The director implemented the oppressive effect of the novella excellently. Your strength lies in the sobriety of a dissecting exercise. "

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for We kill Stella . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Filmkunstmesse Leipzig: We kill Stella . Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: The film begins behind the Gosausee: “We kill Stella!” Comes to the cinema . Article dated October 5, 2016, accessed August 17, 2017.
  5. ^ Vienna Film Fund: We kill Stella . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ Director Julian Pölsler on "We kill Stella", the second part of his Haushofer trilogy ( memento from September 26, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ diepresse.com: Abysmal evil calculation: "We kill Stella" . Article dated September 25, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.